TRISTIAM HILLIER - Haymaking (1943)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/haymaking-8321

Good god this image is awful. I saw this in York Art Gallery and I absolutely loved the way Hillier twists the soft association of pastels by making them very bright and uncomfortable. I also wrote that I 'Dont like bottom RHC' (right hand corner) but looking again I'm not sure why it disturbed me so. I think it's because the simplicity of the painting style works with the pastels to create a surreal appearance, but these details just looked lazily done.

BRIDGET RILEY - Pink Landscape and Line Colour Paintings

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/bridget-riley/pink-landscape-1960

Pink Lanscape - Relies on a lot ot of optical blending. Lines created by colour, density and placement of brush strokes.

First heard of Bridget Riley at the music in art exhibition at York Art Gallery, painting similar to this style:


http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/riley-achan-t03816

'Inspired by nature and the way we see everything in relation to everything else'
'STRIPE PAINTINGS  - some colours recede, some leap forward, creating harmony/decord. OSCILATE'

In York Gallery the painting 'Cloudy blue greens with pink and emerald thrusts' was a picture that was quite small scale so I didn't get the full effect, however Leeds Art Gallery had 'Winter Palace' which was an original on canvas, and good god was it memorising! I found as my eyes moved around the canvas, the ghost image of the previous snapshot overlapped the new one. If you get me. This drew me in even further and it genuinely took a lot of effort to look away.

WALTER GREAVES - Nocturne in Blue and Gold (1870's)

http://patricia1957.wordpress.com/tag/walter-greaves-nocturne-in-blue-and-gold-1870s/

'Inspired by Whistlers 'Noctourne' series of abstract pictures sea/harbour/river.
Nocturne is a musical composition that evoked or is inspired bu the night.
Aesthetic quality of forms and tonal arrangement more important than location depicted.
FLAT SURFACES'
Bdw, the following posts and the one before this, where I write 'Written next to the painting in York Art Gallery' the majority of them are the exact words written, however random notes such as FLAT SURFACES is just my derranged form of note taking. :)

ROGER FRY - Provence Landscape (1925 - 34)

http://thorsteinulf.tumblr.com/post/20137127153/roger-fry-provencal-landscape-1925-34

'Artists should not try to paint nature and the way it looks. He thought the qualities of line, colour and form were more important than trying to represent what we see.
This was the foundation of FORMALISM and ABSTRACTION.
Artists at this time used this method of painting to provoke an 'aesthetic reaction''. - Written next to the painting in York Art Gallery.

PHILIP BARLOW

Beautiful out of focus paintings, I love the reflected flare of sunlight on the waves and the mirage-like thin layer of water on the sand.

Image from http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/page/2/

Riiighto, another aspect of my summer project is to look at 'The Painted Landscape', both work from other artists and my own photography and drawing. Suggested styles are Fauves, Impressionist, Modernism, Expressionism. I was going to leave this blog until later on in the project as I wanted to concentrate more on the floral and fashion aspects, but I just saw an artist online that would be a perfect start! Once again, I do not own any of the images I post onto this blog. Tarra for now